Scott Aaronson writes: I came across what I consider one of the greatest social experiments of all time, one that illuminates people’s reactions to every AI advance. A Twitter/X user named JediWolf displayed the following AI-generated fake “Monet painting,” and asked people to explain what made it worse than real Monet paintings:
If you haven’t seen this yet, I recommend that you try the exercise yourself before reading further.
As it was, numerous art aficionados responded at length, savaging the flat, lifeless, uncreative AI slop, the emotionless composition, the missing spark, the lack of tranquility, the harshness, the lack of depth and symbiosis, and on and on and on.
Only after they had all said their piece did JediWolf reveal that this is an actual Monet painting.
